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Halt error 4 when installing XP on Vista

\015 Hi,\015\012I have this Acer, Travelmate 5530G, with Vista.\015\012Need to install XP.\015\012No that the problem is contacting the S-ATA disk.\015\012Have tried to slipstreame SP3 onto a XPSP2 disk.\015\012Sameo samo.\015\012Any Idea`?\015

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XP does not have a SATA driver on the installation CD, you need to either download a SATA driver and when XP ask at the start of the installation you need to provide a SATA driver for the hard disk, press F6, the driver is usually installed from the floppy disk.\015\012Alternately if your BIOS will allow you to set up the SATA drive as a ATA drive, do so and after XP is installed then install the SATA driver.

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